To continue my occasional series on Words (And Word Combinations) Found Only In Spam, allow me to submit "Calvary Greetings".
I've had many "Calvary Greetings" 419 messages, and just got my very own copy of the "Lady Victoria Amin" version.
Apparently "Calvary Greetings" is actually a normal, if somewhat gruesome, salutation among some African Christians. This explains its popularity as protective colouration for those who hope to break the Eighth, or possibly Seventh, Commandment.
Since people in the English-speaking world don't typically receive a lot of mail from pious Africans, though, "Calvary Greetings" currently stands as an almost perfectly reliable indicator of scam-spam.
20 June 2007 at 4:20 am
Dan, you owe me one keyboard cleaning. "Crucifixion Howdy" resulted in coffee exiting my nose.
Ouch, by the way.
It also resulted in my boss wondering what in the blazes was wrong with me as I simultaneosuly tried to laugh, sneeze, yelp and cry. S'ok though... my sinuses needed a caffeine jolt.....
20 June 2007 at 6:46 am
> It also resulted in my boss wondering what in
> the blazes was wrong with me as I simultaneosuly
> tried to laugh, sneeze, yelp and cry
You probably just need to add some salt.
20 June 2007 at 6:52 am
Incidentally, the funniest thing I've witnessed in the last week - heck, the last month - is the "power converters" gag in the Robot Chicken Star Wars Special, which people who missed it can find at their favourite hive of P2P scum and villainy.
There were some other hits in the Special, if you ask me - including the widely-YouTubed-for-months-now Palpatine-on-the-phone-to-Vader bit - but the power converters gag all by itself would, in my opinion, make the Special worth viewing three times.
20 June 2007 at 7:51 am
I think I'll stick to drinking my caffeine... although the instant kick of pure nasal caffeine might be fun in meetings. And rush hour traffic.
Robot Chicken Star Wars is one of those things that is far funnier than the sum of it's parts.
20 June 2007 at 11:02 am
This morning's non-sequiturs, courtesy of the spambox:
crispy short order cook
moldy mating ritual
my saxon be yuck
surly dust bunny
The mind boggles...
20 June 2007 at 12:40 pm
I smell a spamusement...